Women doing it for themselves

This weekend, while commentators yawned on about local democracy, and Ed Miliband vowed he’d close the chasm between the rich and the rest of us by a whole couple of centimetres, a bunch of young women in east London just got on and did it.

Should the British film industry ever stop making affectionate obituaries of the working class – Pride, Brassed Off, Made in Dagenham – and document current struggles instead, the Focus E15 Mothers would be a deserving subject.